It issurmounted by four embattled turrets, and battlements run round the roof of the church.
An old print shows this tower to have been a wonderful erection of slates and tiles, projecting eaves, and irregular gables, surmounted by a little dome, with a weathercock on the top of all.
His head, which is small and finely shaped, has several curious stripes of white and black round the eyes, and is surmounted by an elegant plume, or tuft offeathers, each of which is composed of a slender stem and a small tuft at the top.
The walls are about two feet thick, and are surmounted by a kind of dome, which generally rises about four feet above them.
Of the churches, the High or Parish church has a square tower surmounted with a steeple, containing one of the bells which Cromwell removed from Fortrose cathedral.
It may be doubted whether she would have surmounted these difficulties and dangers, when death suddenly cut short her adventurous career.
The curtains were yellow, the furniture and walls yellow; on the mantelpiece, surmounted by a mirror in a gilt frame, the candlesticks and a clock all of crystal struck the eye with sharp brilliancy.
That statue, which represents the Emperor standing with the Imperial sceptre in his hand, was torn down in 1814 from the column it surmounted so well.
The upper town is silent, clean, solemn, surmounted by the imposing ruins of the old chateau.
The furniture in the room was mostly of an old-fashioned type, some of it of oak, curiously carved, and most of it surmounted with a coat of arms.
His finger traced its course until it came to a certain point near the beach, where a tall black pillar stood, surmounted by a globe.
In one case which I remember, the yellow hair of a child was knotted into a bunch of solid looking curls covering the head of a small figure, while the face of the mother was surmounted by bands of a reddish brown.
He then suggested that the difficulty of lack of capital could be surmounted by making our sales on terms of payment of approximate amount with order.
Her face, surmounted by a mass of dark brown, silky hair, was most attractive.
The roof proper was surmounted by a para-petted and loop-holed structure called the fighting platform, and it was thither that Constans had repaired upon receiving the startling intelligence of his sister's disappearance.
It had scarp and counter-scarp, each 5 feet thick, and the scarp was surmounted by a breast-work with battlements 5 feet high.
A low counter-scarp enclosed a moat, over which rose the scarp surmounted by breastworks.
The act which caused the greatest indignation was the removal of the magnificent image of Christ which surmounted the bronze gateway of the imperial palace, and was the object of great reverence.
A long nave and aisles separated by rows of pillars, surmounted by a flat roof and ending in an apse: that is the familiar type of which a splendid example built under Byzantine influence is to be found in the church of S.
This wall was twenty feet in height and twelve feet thick at the base, surmounted at frequent intervals by quaint round-topped turrets.
This fruit surmounted a pumpkin, clothed in blue cloth adorned with a bunch of tintinnabulating baubles.
The wife had a fine veneer of mahogany on her face, and in figure she resembled a cocoa-nut, surmounted by a head and tied in around the waist.
When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted.
The dam would necessarily have to be surmounted through the agency of locks.
Gatun dam must be surmounted through the agency of locks, which have been previously described.
He was staring at a brown line of entrenchmentssurmounted by a flag, which was Camp McCalla.
In fact he attacked all obstacles in life in a spirit of contempt, seeing them smaller than they were until he had actually surmounted them--when he was likely to be immensely pleased with himself.
Christ Church, in Stafford Street, not far off, is surmountedby a cupola, and built in the classical style.
This church is of red brick, and is prettily built and surmounted by a high steeple.
The front is ornamented by an immense portico with six Corinthian columns, and the building is surmounted by a high belfry tower.
The column, which was a Corinthian one surmounted by a statue of George III.
Here was the sentry, there the lofty gate, its platform surmounted by a two-storeyed tower, from which the advance of the enemy was doubtless perceived, or would shortly be perceived.
Still the same weird scene: the black mountain glade, the bright, cold sky studded with stars, the great leaping flame surmounted by thick vapour which rose slowly and crawled along the hill inland.
And we would raise on the Carrousel, a magnificent column, surmounted with a statue of Bonaparte crowning the Bourbons.
The pileus or cap bears on its under surface radiating plates or gills, consisting of the hymenium, over which are thickly scattered the basidia, each surmounted by four spicules, and on each spicule a spore.
G] This view seems to be supported by the fact that, in the section Pluteus and some others, the cystidia are surmounted by short horns resembling sterigmata.
When arrived at their full growth, they are somewhat obovate, and produce four spicules, which at length are surmounted each with a globose spore.
Each spicule was normally surmounted by an obovate spore.
The difficulties surmounted by these poor people in the pathetic endeavor to return to their old firesides seem almost incredible.
Indian fortification with ditch and parapet surmounted by a stockade, within which was a strongly built cabin, in size about thirty by forty feet.
The two figures surmounted by a Cross are the two vases, Nature and Art, in which is to be consummated the double marriage of the white woman with the red Servitor, from which marriage will spring a most Potent King.
An ancient pagoda at Deogur wassurmounted by a tower, sustaining the mystic egg and a trident.
Cross surmounted by a circle and crescent an emblem of Deity, 503-u.
Triangle surmounted by a cross symbolizes the perfection of the Great Work, 790-l.
He succeeded, by his incredible patience and the courage with which he surmounted all obstacles, in obtaining admission to their society and receiving their lessons.
The great Pagoda at Tanjore was of six stories, surmounted by a temple as the seventh, and on this three spires or towers.
The Compass surmounted with a crown signifies that notwithstanding the high rank attained in Masonry by a Knight of the Rose Croix, equity and impartiality are invariably to govern his conduct.
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